Covenant VS Metasploit

Covenant C2: https://github.com/cobbr/Covenant

E.g., https://github.com/cobbr/Covenant/blob/master/Covenant/Data/Grunt/GruntHTTP/GruntHTTP.cs

And I have then installed Covenant as per the instructions here: https://github.com/cobbr/Covenant/wiki/Installation-And-Startup

https://github.com/cobbr/Covenant https://bloodhoundgang.herokuapp.com/ https://github.com/cobbr/Covenant/wiki

1. Learn to build things

2. Learn to hack them

3. Build tools to hack things (or learn existing ones, e.g. https://github.com/GhostPack and https://github.com/cobbr/Covenant for you .NET folks)

Going from business apps to tools offers a nice change of pace.

Covenant: https://github.com/cobbr/Covenant

Thanks I will give the README a read https://github.com/cobbr/Covenant

an implementation is here - Covenant Implant Template, which uses Domain Borrowing for C2 communication. https://github.com/Dliv3/DomainBorrowing

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The Metasploit exploit module that we will use to exploit this vulnerability is exploit/multi/samba/usermap_script. You can find the source code and comments for this module at: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/samba/usermap_script.rb

Metasploit

Metasploit: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework